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perhaps?) in it, their superiors who permitted it, and the relatively few persons who had been victimized by it, We say "relatively few" in reference to the total number of persons who have been spied upon unbeknowingly.

It is an unfortunate concomitant of our judicial system-and one of which police authorities are well awarethat such practices come to light only at great expense to the persons accused. And in this case, three men, in spite of the vices attributed to them by this "enthusiastic" officer, have risked much in order to assert a right which most of us assume to be basic. But the truth usually comes out eventually though there may be conspiracies to prevent its doing so. In the case at hand, certain police elements-with the knowledge, permission and, undoubtedly, encouragement of their superiors have brought judgment on their own heads by indulging in a practice repugnant even to the most "depraved" elements of a multifarious-no pun intended-society. And in so doing have increased public suspicion of police practices and policemen in general, and so done damage to the image of a most nece's sary authority and consequently weakening its prestige.

This is very serious. In a number of newspapers recently (in both Canada and the United States), have appeared editorials and articles criticizing the public at large for not show

ing greater respect for police authority!

If we may for a moment refer to the police as constituting a minority (many people think of them as exactly that), the activities such as that which has recently come to light (tortuously) in California testify to the fact that all minorities have their bad elements, and that the whole group is apt to suffer for the activities of that few. Thus, in the case at hand, we can only expect, as the night follows the day, that honest; and sincere policemen will have a difficult job made more difficult, not so much by the activities of that element under discussion, but by the attitudes of the higher-ups who have allowed such generalized "detective work" in the first place, and whosince being put back in their placehave set up a most eloquent howl!

It is the thug in the street (of which there are reputed to be many in San Francisco, for instance) who stands to gain.

Thus, we see how the police authorities (let's not blame the lowly detective who, after all, can't be expected to entertain a very high concept of ethics), by allowing illegal practices to become a commonplace in their repertoire of enforcement practices, have-perhaps naivelybrought about a condition which deprives them of the vision of their own purposes.

If we just turn over a few more stones instead of letting them lie, we should not be surprised to uncover methods even more unbelievable-and more il33